Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...Georgia students. He served in the army during World War II, and then graduated Tuskegee University on the G.I. Bill. When historian Lu Ann Jones interviewed Long in the mid-1980s,...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...in School Desegregation. This exhibition recounts the experiences of young African American students who were the first to desegregate schools and features excerpts of oral history videos conducted by the project team,...
Glocal Lounge
...heterogeneous and tolerant future." Edward Watts, a scholar of American thought and language, writes that critical regionalism offers students a rich and robust methodology for thinking about globalization. . ....
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...Nesbit, Scott. "Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia." Southern Spaces, July 19, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/scales-intimate-and-sprawling-slavery-emancipation-and-geography-marriage-virginia. Tarasawa, Beth. "New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...In the book's Epilogue, Thompson writes about attending Professor James Cobb's "Understanding Southern Culture" class at the University of Georgia. After class he treats three professors and three students to...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...I taught my "Women in the South" class at the University of Alabama, I asked students to write an essay in which they explored the question Pratt addressed in her...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Disputes (2003), who advised on Petrochemical America, gave a tour for Georgia Tech students of the Misrach exhibit at the High, calling attention to...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...Eric Arnall brought video messages—original songs and spoken word performances—from his students at Westcott Elementary School in Chicago. “As an African American young man,” wrote one seventh grader, about the...